Re: [PATCH v2] Enhance kvmconfig

2016-05-09 Thread Andrey Utkin
On Mon, May 09, 2016 at 02:16:55PM +0200, Paolo Bonzini wrote: > I think adding virtio storage is a good idea for "make kvmconfig". > > virtio-input is not _that_ useful on x86, but it's getting more useful > (recent QEMU can pass evdev events directly to a VM via virtio-input). > I'm ambivalent a

Re: [PATCH v2] Enhance kvmconfig

2016-05-09 Thread Paolo Bonzini
On 24/04/2016 18:30, Borislav Petkov wrote: >> > +CONFIG_SCSI_VIRTIO=y >> > +CONFIG_VIRTIO_INPUT=y >> > +CONFIG_VIRTIO_MMIO=y >> > +CONFIG_VIRTIO_MMIO_CMDLINE_DEVICES=y >> > -- > Frankly, I'm still not sure we want to do this. Apparently, virtio is > the way to go on kvm but it is not absolutely

Re: [PATCH v2] Enhance kvmconfig

2016-04-25 Thread Borislav Petkov
On Mon, Apr 25, 2016 at 03:49:04AM +0300, Andrey Utkin wrote: > IMO "bare minimum" term makes sense if it boots. Boots where? On every system? You know that won't fly. This bare minimum is trying to be of help only. No one says you should be able to boot *every* guest kernel config with this. Fo

Re: [PATCH v2] Enhance kvmconfig

2016-04-24 Thread Andrey Utkin
On Sun, Apr 24, 2016 at 10:51:29PM +0200, Borislav Petkov wrote: > On Sun, Apr 24, 2016 at 11:35:53PM +0300, Andrey Utkin wrote: > > Could you please test "make defconfig kvmconfig" how it boots? > > The point of my patch is to enable user to end up with working kernel > > for KVM guest without pre

Re: [PATCH v2] Enhance kvmconfig

2016-04-24 Thread Borislav Petkov
On Sun, Apr 24, 2016 at 11:35:53PM +0300, Andrey Utkin wrote: > Could you please test "make defconfig kvmconfig" how it boots? > The point of my patch is to enable user to end up with working kernel > for KVM guest without previously having any config, That doesn't work as you need to control the

Re: [PATCH v2] Enhance kvmconfig

2016-04-24 Thread Andrey Utkin
On Sun, Apr 24, 2016 at 10:18:35PM +0200, Borislav Petkov wrote: > On Sun, Apr 24, 2016 at 10:57:37PM +0300, Andrey Utkin wrote: > > So current "make defconfig kvmconfig" works for you? > > I don't do that - I do > > make oldconfig > make kvmconfig > > and the second one adds the options which a

Re: [PATCH v2] Enhance kvmconfig

2016-04-24 Thread Borislav Petkov
On Sun, Apr 24, 2016 at 10:57:37PM +0300, Andrey Utkin wrote: > So current "make defconfig kvmconfig" works for you? I don't do that - I do make oldconfig make kvmconfig and the second one adds the options which are not set in my .config. -- Regards/Gruss, Boris. ECO tip #101: Trim your m

Re: [PATCH v2] Enhance kvmconfig

2016-04-24 Thread Andrey Utkin
On Sun, Apr 24, 2016 at 06:30:46PM +0200, Borislav Petkov wrote: > Frankly, I'm still not sure we want to do this. Apparently, virtio is > the way to go on kvm but it is not absolutely necessary to get a booting > guest. So current "make defconfig kvmconfig" works for you?

Re: [PATCH v2] Enhance kvmconfig

2016-04-24 Thread Borislav Petkov
On Sat, Apr 23, 2016 at 08:26:48PM +0300, Andrey Utkin wrote: > Dropped BALLOON entries as suggested by Borislav Petkov. Tested. > > This was tested only on Hetzner CX10 VPS. I don't know how recent KVM > server stuff they use. > Tests & reports from anybody else are appreciated. > I guess some of

[PATCH v2] Enhance kvmconfig

2016-04-23 Thread Andrey Utkin
Dropped BALLOON entries as suggested by Borislav Petkov. Tested. This was tested only on Hetzner CX10 VPS. I don't know how recent KVM server stuff they use. Tests & reports from anybody else are appreciated. I guess some of added options may be not strictly necessary or make not that lot of sense